| Although coffee and cigarettes play an important role in each of the shorts, the overall film is really much more about the interaction that takes place between the characters. Nearly all the segments are characterized by a high degree of awkwardness. When people meet for the first time, they may not know
what to talk about, so they focus on their coffee or their smoking rituals. Even when they speak to one another there is often misunderstanding.
--From Darrel Manson's review
ON AWKWARD IN CONVERSATION WITH OTHERS
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
--Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
--Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
--Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
--Dorothy Nevill
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
--Margaret Millar
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
--Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
--Cullen Hightower |
ON CONVERSATION WITH OTHERS
Col. 4:6 (Message Bible)
Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.
James 3:13 (Message Bible)
Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here's what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It's the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts.
James 1:19-27 (Message Bible)
Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action.
Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
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